Homemade
GAO: DHS Cybersecurity
Plans Need More Work
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has yet to
sufficiently address the nation's cybersecurity needs,
concludes a new report from the Government Accountability
Office (GAO). Although GAO credits the DHS with the
establishment of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
and forums ...
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H-1Bs Not Going Like
Hotcakes
Congress approved 20,000 new H-1B visas late last year in
response to industry pressure, but only 6,400 visa petitions
have been submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) since the agency began accepting applications
on May 12. "We had anticipated that the petitions ...
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Poland's Minister of
Science: HPC Needs Development
High-performance computing (HPC) researchers from
government, industry, and academia discussed ongoing and
future projects at the 14th HPC User Forum in Warsaw. Army
High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) scientist
Dave Doherty noted the large number of chemists who were ...
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What's Next After
AJAX?
New Web applications that leverage AJAX (asynchronous
JavaScript and XML) are boosting prospects of more viable Web
UIs by providing smoother scrolling, incremental updates, and
more interactive input forms. However, fat-client UIs still
have the advantage in terms of being able to receive ...
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Bipartisan Group Raises
E-Waste Awareness
The establishment of the bipartisan Congressional E-Waste
Working Group was announced by Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.),
Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), and
Mary Bono (R-Calif.) at a May 24 news conference. Thompson
said the group would convene regularly to discuss ...
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Collaboration Is a
Necessity for a Secure Infrastructure
Now that IT is considered an integral part of the business,
it is time for collaboration between industry users and
vendors to establish best practices, says Oracle chief
security officer Mary Ann Davidson. As one of the 10 charter
members of the Global CSO Council, Davidson is taking a lead
...
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House Approves Spyware
Penalties
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor
of Rep. Mary Bono's (R-Calif.) Spy Act and Rep. Bob
Goodlatte's (R-Va.) Internet Spyware Prevention Act on May 23.
The anti-spyware proposals are nearly identical, although
Bono's bill requires businesses to use an "opt-in" policy in
which ...
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New Haptics Systems
Challenge Stroke Patients to Grasp, Pinch, Squeeze, Throw and,
Yeah, Get Pushy
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is developing and
testing cutting-edge haptics technologies designed to aid the
rehabilitation of stroke victims at the USC Viterbi School of
Engineering's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). The
National Institutes of Health awarded a $1.8 ...
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Smoother Bureaucracy for
Europe's Mobile Workforce
The increasing mobility of Europe's workforce requires less
expensive and more transparent, efficient, and user-friendly
electronic information exchange between public
administrations, and the IST-funded INFOCITIZEN project aims
to fulfill these requirements with a new platform. The ...
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Watching You, Watching
Me
Researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Laboratory
are developing technology that has a greater awareness of
people, according to lab director Roel Vertegaal. Among the
projects under development at the lab is the eyeBlog, a system
consisting of special glasses equipped with a ...
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The 2020 Vision of Robotic
Assistants Unveiled
The Prototype Robot Exhibition opening next month at the
World Expo 2005 in Japan will showcase more than 60 types of
robots expected to be commonplace in 2020. Futuristic medical
robots sharing the spotlight will include Nagoya University's
EVE and Hyper-Finger: The humanoid EVE features ...
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Rethinking the Relational
Database
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are terrific
technology, but are increasingly mismatched with the large
volumes of business event being data generated today, writes
CopperEye CEO Kate Mitchell. Relational database technology
offers sophisticated development tools, the ability to ...
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New Rules for the Internet
Age: Copy Rights and Copy Wrongs
The Internet age has outmoded traditional forms of
distributing copyrighted material, requiring a new type of
copyright regime, according to intellectual property experts
who back free exchange of information. Lawrence Lessig's
Creative Commons project is among several projects that ...
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New Ways to Search,
Navigate and Use Multimedia Museum Collections Over the
Web
The European Commission IST-funded Sculpteur project has
spent the past three years developing new tools and techniques
for creating, searching, navigating, accessing, sharing,
repurposing, and using multimedia content from multiple
sources over the Web, which museums and galleries could use
...
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Students Help Researchers
Find Ways to Better Harness Supercomputer
Power
A five-university effort funded by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could help researchers more
effectively tap supercomputer power through the observation of
computer-science students as they complete assignments in
supercomputing classes. The project involves the recording ...
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Networks Drive Car of the
Future
The increasing complexity of automotive electronics is
spurring car manufacturers to deploy shared data networks and
standard protocols to facilitate high-speed internal
communications between control systems, as well as use
industry standards such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to support ...
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The Browser
Reloaded
Web applications can get a new lease on life through the
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) development model,
which unshackles applications from the traditional
request/response process and facilitates the asynchronous
transaction of network communications. AJAX Web browsers use
...
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Security: More Than Good
Programming
A new BZ Research survey of 383 software development
managers lists a variety of reasons as to why software
applications are so riddled with security holes. Poor
programming practices, poor design and architecture, and a
lack of developer security training were cited by more than 50
...
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Homemade
Fabbers--personal devices that can fabricate useful items
on demand from computerized design specs--could give a
significant boost to independent design, eliminate a sizable
portion of stock and delivery costs, and enable a new level of
product customization. Rapid-prototyping systems employed ...
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